0000499: [FAK-500 (alt)] Problems in Debian maintainer scripts

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0000499	Fakturama	Allgemein (General)	public	2016-01-17 16:52	2016-12-28 00:59

Reporter	~~mbiebl~~	Assigned To	rheydenr
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Target Version	2.0.0	Fixed in Version	2.0.0

Summary	0000499: [FAK-500 (alt)] Problems in Debian maintainer scripts
Description	The Debian fakturama.postinst contains: <div class="code panel" style="border-width: 1px;"><div class="codeContent panelContent"> <pre class="code-java"> cp /usr/share/Fakturama/applications/ /usr/share/applications mv /usr/share/Fakturama/pixmaps/ /usr/share/pixmaps mv /usr/share/Fakturama/applications/* ~/Desktop </div></div> This is problematic for several reasons: <ul class="alternate" type="square"> It copies files into the root home directory, this should never happen from within a package If the /root/Desktop directory does not exist, it will create a file /root/Desktop It removes files from the package list, e.g. tools like debsums will report missing files. The cleanup routine in fakturama.prerm does remove those manually installed files. There is a simple and proper solution for that: Ship the files directly in the package at the correct location and remove the logic from postinst. I.e. ship /usr/share/applications/fakturama.desktop /usr/share/pixmaps/Fakturama.png
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-12-30 00:08	rheydenr	New Issue
2017-12-30 00:08	rheydenr	Assigned To	=> rheydenr
2017-12-30 00:08	rheydenr	Note Added: 0000548
2017-12-30 00:08	rheydenr	Note Added: 0000549

~~mbiebl~~ 2016-01-17 16:54 viewer ~0000548 Last edited: 2017-12-30 00:08	… in fakturama.prerm does not remove those manually installed files

rheydenr 2016-12-28 00:59 administrator ~0000549 Last edited: 2017-12-30 00:08	fixed with revision 2.0 (new install4j scripts)